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Re: Count on Color! 1955 machines

From ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>)
Newsgroups alt.folklore.computers
Subject Re: Count on Color! 1955 machines
Date 2020-09-19 06:39 +0000
Organization loft
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In article <37a75849-bae8-45c6-83db-ebd370d1ad8bn@googlegroups.com>,
Quadibloc  <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> wrote:
>On Friday, September 18, 2020 at 12:52:50 PM UTC-6, hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:
>
>> Has anyone here lived or worked in a town served by an 
>> Independent (non-Bell/AT&T) telephone company? 
>
>I live in Canada, so I'm not sure if it counts.
>
>Alberta is currently served by Telus, which is the new name for Alberta
>Government Telephones. Saskatchewan has SaskTel. But Ontario and Quebec 
>are part of the Bell System.
>

It wasn't a small company, but GTE served the South Carolina coast for
many years along with HTC (Horry Telephone Collective) which is still
extant.  Verizon eventually got got the GTE areas, and then Frontier
took them.

And of course everyone knows the phone company that (sorta) served
Hooterville!
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Count on Color!  1955 machines hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2020-09-16 11:53 -0700
  Re: Count on Color! 1955 machines Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2020-09-16 23:54 -0700
    Re: Count on Color! 1955 machines Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2020-09-17 03:23 -0700
      Re: Count on Color! 1955 machines Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2020-09-17 03:48 -0700
        Re: Count on Color! 1955 machines Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2020-09-17 03:54 -0700
          Re: Count on Color! 1955 machines hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2020-09-18 11:54 -0700
      Re: Count on Color! 1955 machines hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2020-09-18 11:52 -0700
        Re: Count on Color! 1955 machines John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2020-09-18 19:23 +0000
        Re: Count on Color! 1955 machines lawrence <lawrence@cluon.com> - 2020-09-18 14:33 -0500
          Re: Count on Color! 1955 machines hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2020-09-19 11:39 -0700
        Re: Count on Color! 1955 machines JimP <chucktheouch@gmail.com> - 2020-09-18 15:44 -0500
        Re: Count on Color! 1955 machines J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2020-09-18 17:07 -0400
        Re: Count on Color! 1955 machines Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2020-09-18 16:43 -0700
        Re: Count on Color! 1955 machines drb@ihatespam.msu.edu (Dennis Boone) - 2020-09-19 00:06 -0500
          Re: Count on Color! 1955 machines hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2020-09-19 11:47 -0700
        Re: Count on Color! 1955 machines Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2020-09-18 23:17 -0700
          Re: Count on Color! 1955 machines ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) - 2020-09-19 06:39 +0000
          Re: Count on Color! 1955 machines Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2020-09-19 14:47 -0400
          Re: Count on Color! 1955 machines Alfred Falk <aefalk@telus.net> - 2020-09-19 22:52 +0000
            Re: Count on Color! 1955 machines Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2020-09-21 02:03 -0700
              Re: Count on Color! 1955 machines Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2020-09-21 02:19 -0700
          Re: Count on Color! 1955 machines Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2020-09-20 15:57 +0000
        Re: Count on Color! 1955 machines maus <maus@dmaus.org> - 2020-09-19 19:12 +0000

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